It was a few days before the announcement of the strikeIn 2012 they believe the market at EUR 28 million euros budget for the first year in 20082 while lowering its forecast of growth between 1They were not holidaymakers but wintering2 finished the year on a very positive noteThere is little a dissident was a traitorThe current credit crisis is a test of truthThis year is subtitled Of Diogenes toCharlieHebdoAnd yet the old practices appear to be hardOddly, while number of restaurateurs complain of the slowdown in activity, it never was as much establishment openings ("Les Echos weekend" from February 8). End of February, Edouard Baer will open the Parisian tour (243, rue de Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, 11th), course table "people", installed in the walls of what was formerly the Jean. In the program, a kitchen without head, to satisfy the many friends of Mister Baer.
The jazz returned and reinvents the Duke of Lombards, opened in 1984, and which has been completely redesigned. The Duke is now a jazz-club, café and restaurant of day and night. Alain Alexanian, starry Michelin at the Alexandria in Lyon, now Paris, took over the kitchens. This devotee of healthy and inventive cuisine serves specialities in plates in natural fibres such as palm leaves. At lunch, it offers a few dishes "light", but nevertheless tasty such this sea bream on Jerusalem artichoke milk hazelnut sauce artichoke, or vegetarian as rutabaga ravioles filled mashed squash on embeurrée of chanterelle mushrooms and red beans, or a pizza to pears and tofu, Basil oil and salad rocket peanut, surprising, but interesting flavours. At night, small plates, so-called "Croq'o ' n Jazz", allow to restore without disturbing the musicians but keeping the tempo. An address which, hopefully, will revitalize the Halles, whose image is struggling to recover.
Finally a true Japanese to the Champs-Elysées! Hisayuki Takeuchi, said "Hoisting", nippon head including the small workshop kitchen Kaiseki (7 bis, rue André-Lefebvre, 15th) is an absolute reference for all lovers of Japanese culinary art, sought by Toyota, has just opened Kaiseki Bento on the 1st floor of the mark, the Rendez-vous Toyota strategic showcase. In a clean and scalable décor signed Ora Ito, hoisting imagined a bento take-out prepared at the bar, and, for zen break, a space tasting of 24 covered close to a large wall screen broadcasting "ecological values" Toyota (another, smaller, close to the bar gives him a wide place in the culinary images), with foods rich in omega-3 and in harmony. A map, three bento (box lunch) at the election, including the harmonious "bento kaisaiki" and "Bento prose" of a delicate composition (seafood, plants, fruit), and a bento of the day the seasons. All are prepared from quality products. Thus the vegetables are reasoned agriculture. Side drinks, tea and sake course, but also a few nature wines, including a remarkable white of the island of Santorini (Greece).
Buttes-Chaumont tradition
Entêtée, tiny cool and urban Bistro tucked away in the Daguerre district, is the good pick of the village. Julie Ferrault, from star-shaped in pubs and breweries of neighbourhood, longed to be home. It is done. On a large wall as a slate (the right way), are registered foods and wines that are also presents a small slate table. It feels that the stove is still his way, attempts to associations, some successful other less mature, but willingness to is obvious. Tarte Tatin of endives and goat Sweet Sour juice, crisp black pudding and mixed Green Salad with herbs, as well as the bar to the vanilla and sweet potato puree are controlled. Salted butter caramel mousse desserts like Apple Pie and the bitter chocolate fondant with sauce verte (tarragon), justified and delicious are on all the tables. Discreet and efficient service. Choice of wines made in part with the very good nearby cave, the Cave of papillae.
The relay of mounds, immutable bourgeois House Buttes-Chaumont held for thirty years by the Gautron, has been picked up by a young and alert redhead, Eléonore Descordes, which is well kept in the classical repertoire in use. Its young leader, ex-Villaret, ex-Soleil, therefore perpetuates the revenue of the crab stuffed with Morels and tarragon veal kidney, embeurrée of potatoes, pancakes terrine and chocolate profiteroles. Winter fire purrs in the fireplace and in summer, the terrace is beautiful to receive you on the evening the fraîche.
